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1=pod
2
3=head1 NAME
4
5BIO_do_handshake,
6BIO_f_ssl, BIO_set_ssl, BIO_get_ssl, BIO_set_ssl_mode,
7BIO_set_ssl_renegotiate_bytes,
8BIO_get_num_renegotiates, BIO_set_ssl_renegotiate_timeout, BIO_new_ssl,
9BIO_new_ssl_connect, BIO_new_buffer_ssl_connect, BIO_ssl_copy_session_id,
10BIO_ssl_shutdown - SSL BIO
11
12=head1 SYNOPSIS
13
14=for openssl multiple includes
15
16 #include <openssl/bio.h>
17 #include <openssl/ssl.h>
18
19 const BIO_METHOD *BIO_f_ssl(void);
20
21 long BIO_set_ssl(BIO *b, SSL *ssl, long c);
22 long BIO_get_ssl(BIO *b, SSL **sslp);
23 long BIO_set_ssl_mode(BIO *b, long client);
24 long BIO_set_ssl_renegotiate_bytes(BIO *b, long num);
25 long BIO_set_ssl_renegotiate_timeout(BIO *b, long seconds);
26 long BIO_get_num_renegotiates(BIO *b);
27
28 BIO *BIO_new_ssl(SSL_CTX *ctx, int client);
29 BIO *BIO_new_ssl_connect(SSL_CTX *ctx);
30 BIO *BIO_new_buffer_ssl_connect(SSL_CTX *ctx);
31 int BIO_ssl_copy_session_id(BIO *to, BIO *from);
32 void BIO_ssl_shutdown(BIO *bio);
33
34 long BIO_do_handshake(BIO *b);
35
36=head1 DESCRIPTION
37
38BIO_f_ssl() returns the SSL BIO method. This is a filter BIO which
39is a wrapper round the OpenSSL SSL routines adding a BIO "flavour" to
40SSL I/O.
41
42I/O performed on an SSL BIO communicates using the SSL protocol with
43the SSLs read and write BIOs. If an SSL connection is not established
44then an attempt is made to establish one on the first I/O call.
45
46If a BIO is appended to an SSL BIO using BIO_push() it is automatically
47used as the SSL BIOs read and write BIOs.
48
49Calling BIO_reset() on an SSL BIO closes down any current SSL connection
50by calling SSL_shutdown(). BIO_reset() is then sent to the next BIO in
51the chain: this will typically disconnect the underlying transport.
52The SSL BIO is then reset to the initial accept or connect state.
53
54If the close flag is set when an SSL BIO is freed then the internal
55SSL structure is also freed using SSL_free().
56
57BIO_set_ssl() sets the internal SSL pointer of SSL BIO B<b> to B<ssl> using
58the close flag B<c>.
59
60BIO_get_ssl() retrieves the SSL pointer of SSL BIO B<b>, it can then be
61manipulated using the standard SSL library functions.
62
63BIO_set_ssl_mode() sets the SSL BIO mode to B<client>. If B<client>
64is 1 client mode is set. If B<client> is 0 server mode is set.
65
66BIO_set_ssl_renegotiate_bytes() sets the renegotiate byte count of SSL BIO B<b>
67to B<num>. When set after every B<num> bytes of I/O (read and write)
68the SSL session is automatically renegotiated. B<num> must be at
69least 512 bytes.
70
71BIO_set_ssl_renegotiate_timeout() sets the renegotiate timeout of SSL BIO B<b>
72to B<seconds>.
73When the renegotiate timeout elapses the session is automatically renegotiated.
74
75BIO_get_num_renegotiates() returns the total number of session
76renegotiations due to I/O or timeout of SSL BIO B<b>.
77
78BIO_new_ssl() allocates an SSL BIO using SSL_CTX B<ctx> and using
79client mode if B<client> is non zero.
80
81BIO_new_ssl_connect() creates a new BIO chain consisting of an
82SSL BIO (using B<ctx>) followed by a connect BIO.
83
84BIO_new_buffer_ssl_connect() creates a new BIO chain consisting
85of a buffering BIO, an SSL BIO (using B<ctx>), and a connect BIO.
86
87BIO_ssl_copy_session_id() copies an SSL session id between
88BIO chains B<from> and B<to>. It does this by locating the
89SSL BIOs in each chain and calling SSL_copy_session_id() on
90the internal SSL pointer.
91
92BIO_ssl_shutdown() closes down an SSL connection on BIO
93chain B<bio>. It does this by locating the SSL BIO in the
94chain and calling SSL_shutdown() on its internal SSL
95pointer.
96
97BIO_do_handshake() attempts to complete an SSL handshake on the
98supplied BIO and establish the SSL connection.
99For non-SSL BIOs the connection is done typically at TCP level.
100If domain name resolution yields multiple IP addresses all of them are tried
101after connect() failures.
102The function returns 1 if the connection was established successfully.
103A zero or negative value is returned if the connection could not be established.
104The call BIO_should_retry() should be used for nonblocking connect BIOs
105to determine if the call should be retried.
106If a connection has already been established this call has no effect.
107
108=head1 NOTES
109
110SSL BIOs are exceptional in that if the underlying transport
111is non blocking they can still request a retry in exceptional
112circumstances. Specifically this will happen if a session
113renegotiation takes place during a BIO_read_ex() operation, one
114case where this happens is when step up occurs.
115
116The SSL flag SSL_AUTO_RETRY can be
117set to disable this behaviour. That is when this flag is set
118an SSL BIO using a blocking transport will never request a
119retry.
120
121Since unknown BIO_ctrl() operations are sent through filter
122BIOs the servers name and port can be set using BIO_set_host()
123on the BIO returned by BIO_new_ssl_connect() without having
124to locate the connect BIO first.
125
126Applications do not have to call BIO_do_handshake() but may wish
127to do so to separate the handshake process from other I/O
128processing.
129
130BIO_set_ssl(), BIO_get_ssl(), BIO_set_ssl_mode(),
131BIO_set_ssl_renegotiate_bytes(), BIO_set_ssl_renegotiate_timeout(),
132BIO_get_num_renegotiates(), and BIO_do_handshake() are implemented as macros.
133
134BIO_ssl_copy_session_id() is not currently supported on QUIC SSL objects and
135fails if called on such an object.
136
137=head1 RETURN VALUES
138
139BIO_f_ssl() returns the SSL B<BIO_METHOD> structure.
140
141BIO_set_ssl(), BIO_get_ssl(), BIO_set_ssl_mode(), BIO_set_ssl_renegotiate_bytes(),
142BIO_set_ssl_renegotiate_timeout() and BIO_get_num_renegotiates() return 1 on
143success or a value which is less than or equal to 0 if an error occurred.
144
145BIO_new_ssl(), BIO_new_ssl_connect() and BIO_new_buffer_ssl_connect() return
146a valid B<BIO> structure on success or B<NULL> if an error occurred.
147
148BIO_ssl_copy_session_id() returns 1 on success or 0 on error, or if called
149on a QUIC SSL object.
150
151BIO_do_handshake() returns 1 if the connection was established successfully.
152A zero or negative value is returned if the connection could not be established.
153
154=head1 EXAMPLES
155
156This SSL/TLS client example attempts to retrieve a page from an
157SSL/TLS web server. The I/O routines are identical to those of the
158unencrypted example in L<BIO_s_connect(3)>.
159
160 BIO *sbio, *out;
161 int len;
162 char tmpbuf[1024];
163 SSL_CTX *ctx;
164 SSL *ssl;
165
166 /* XXX Seed the PRNG if needed. */
167
168 ctx = SSL_CTX_new(TLS_client_method());
169
170 /* XXX Set verify paths and mode here. */
171
172 sbio = BIO_new_ssl_connect(ctx);
173 BIO_get_ssl(sbio, &ssl);
174 if (ssl == NULL) {
175     fprintf(stderr, "Can't locate SSL pointer\n");
176     ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
177     exit(1);
178 }
179
180 /* XXX We might want to do other things with ssl here */
181
182 /* An empty host part means the loopback address */
183 BIO_set_conn_hostname(sbio, ":https");
184
185 out = BIO_new_fp(stdout, BIO_NOCLOSE);
186 if (BIO_do_connect(sbio) <= 0) {
187     fprintf(stderr, "Error connecting to server\n");
188     ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
189     exit(1);
190 }
191
192 /* XXX Could examine ssl here to get connection info */
193
194 BIO_puts(sbio, "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n");
195 for (;;) {
196     len = BIO_read(sbio, tmpbuf, 1024);
197     if (len <= 0)
198         break;
199     BIO_write(out, tmpbuf, len);
200 }
201 BIO_free_all(sbio);
202 BIO_free(out);
203
204Here is a simple server example. It makes use of a buffering
205BIO to allow lines to be read from the SSL BIO using BIO_gets.
206It creates a pseudo web page containing the actual request from
207a client and also echoes the request to standard output.
208
209 BIO *sbio, *bbio, *acpt, *out;
210 int len;
211 char tmpbuf[1024];
212 SSL_CTX *ctx;
213 SSL *ssl;
214
215 /* XXX Seed the PRNG if needed. */
216
217 ctx = SSL_CTX_new(TLS_server_method());
218 if (!SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file(ctx, "server.pem", SSL_FILETYPE_PEM)
219         || !SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(ctx, "server.pem", SSL_FILETYPE_PEM)
220         || !SSL_CTX_check_private_key(ctx)) {
221     fprintf(stderr, "Error setting up SSL_CTX\n");
222     ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
223     exit(1);
224 }
225
226 /* XXX Other things like set verify locations, EDH temp callbacks. */
227
228 /* New SSL BIO setup as server */
229 sbio = BIO_new_ssl(ctx, 0);
230 BIO_get_ssl(sbio, &ssl);
231 if (ssl == NULL) {
232     fprintf(stderr, "Can't locate SSL pointer\n");
233     ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
234     exit(1);
235 }
236
237 bbio = BIO_new(BIO_f_buffer());
238 sbio = BIO_push(bbio, sbio);
239 acpt = BIO_new_accept("4433");
240
241 /*
242  * By doing this when a new connection is established
243  * we automatically have sbio inserted into it. The
244  * BIO chain is now 'swallowed' by the accept BIO and
245  * will be freed when the accept BIO is freed.
246  */
247 BIO_set_accept_bios(acpt, sbio);
248 out = BIO_new_fp(stdout, BIO_NOCLOSE);
249
250 /* First call to BIO_do_accept() sets up accept BIO */
251 if (BIO_do_accept(acpt) <= 0) {
252     fprintf(stderr, "Error setting up accept BIO\n");
253     ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
254     exit(1);
255 }
256
257/* Second call to BIO_do_accept() waits for incoming connection */
258 if (BIO_do_accept(acpt) <= 0) {
259    fprintf(stderr, "Error accepting connection\n");
260    ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
261    exit(1);
262 }
263
264 /* We only want one connection so remove and free accept BIO */
265 sbio = BIO_pop(acpt);
266 BIO_free_all(acpt);
267
268 if (BIO_do_handshake(sbio) <= 0) {
269     fprintf(stderr, "Error in SSL handshake\n");
270     ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr);
271     exit(1);
272 }
273
274 BIO_puts(sbio, "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\nContent-type: text/plain\r\n\r\n");
275 BIO_puts(sbio, "\r\nConnection Established\r\nRequest headers:\r\n");
276 BIO_puts(sbio, "--------------------------------------------------\r\n");
277
278 for (;;) {
279     len = BIO_gets(sbio, tmpbuf, 1024);
280     if (len <= 0)
281         break;
282     BIO_write(sbio, tmpbuf, len);
283     BIO_write(out, tmpbuf, len);
284     /* Look for blank line signifying end of headers*/
285     if (tmpbuf[0] == '\r' || tmpbuf[0] == '\n')
286         break;
287 }
288
289 BIO_puts(sbio, "--------------------------------------------------\r\n");
290 BIO_puts(sbio, "\r\n");
291 BIO_flush(sbio);
292 BIO_free_all(sbio);
293
294=head1 HISTORY
295
296In OpenSSL before 1.0.0 the BIO_pop() call was handled incorrectly,
297the I/O BIO reference count was incorrectly incremented (instead of
298decremented) and dissociated with the SSL BIO even if the SSL BIO was not
299explicitly being popped (e.g. a pop higher up the chain). Applications which
300included workarounds for this bug (e.g. freeing BIOs more than once) should
301be modified to handle this fix or they may free up an already freed BIO.
302
303=head1 COPYRIGHT
304
305Copyright 2000-2023 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
306
307Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License").  You may not use
308this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy
309in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
310L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
311
312=cut
313